Here’s today’s comic. Click on the image to view the larger version.

I just made the hour!

So, a few questions about the strip:

1. Do all women do this?
2. Could her hair be any frizzier?
3. Are they growing in each panel?

Considering I did this in all inks, it’s not too bad. I thought I’d have more trouble with the female character than I did. The problem I did have was the sketching; it occurred to me whilst drawing today’s comic that perhaps my tendencies to overwork my pages stems from the fact that I do prefer sketching over drawing. I mean, look at the number of lines! I just noodled away, didn’t I? I’ll have to streamline that bit, I think.

My hand started to hurt on the underside of my wrist at the base of my thumb, and my hand began to go numb again. I wonder if it’s my hand position; drawing with a dip pen is not like drawing with a pencil whereby the pen can be held at the same angle I would normally hold a pencil at, otherwise the ink wouldn’t come out of the nib. Or maybe because I’m standing up and the angle of my hand to my arm is such that it’s causing pain. I’ll have to look into this more because I don’t think it’s very healthy to have a hurt hand while drawing.

Today’s comics was done with a dip pen (G-pen nib), Koh-I-Noor black ink, and a Faber-Castell pen brush on Strathmore Series 500 bristol board

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This is an Inkspill. Inkspills can only be done in ink and must be drawn, scanned, cleaned, and posted in one hour, no more.